Surreal: US Troops Stage in Jordan to Defend Al Qaeda in Syria

Massive US arms/aid deliveries prop up Al Qaeda in Syria, while US troops stage in Jordan to defend terrorists they spent last decade fighting.

April 18, 2013 (LD) - CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria's border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have
formed the foundation of Al Qaeda's public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts
of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda's continued
operations and atrocities inside Syria. The addition of US troops along Syria's border appears to be a response to recent and significant gains made by the Syrian government in stamping out terrorist operations nationwide.

Syria's "Rebels" are Same Terrorists US Fought for Last 10 Years

As reported in October 2012, the networks used to flood Iraq with weapons and Al Qaeda militants during the US occupation, had been positively identified by the extensive academic efforts of the US Army's own West Point
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). Two reports were published between
2007 and 2008 revealing a global network of Al Qaeda affiliated terror
organizations, and how they mobilized to send a large influx of foreign
fighters into Iraq.

Image: Cover of the US Army's West Point Combating Terrorism Center report, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq."
The report definitively exposed a regional network used by Al Qaeda to
send fighters into Iraq to sow sectarian violence during the US
occupation. This exact network can now be seen demonstrably at work with
NATO support, overrunning Libya and now Syria. The terrorists in the
eastern Libyan city of Benghazi that US Ambassador Stevens was arming, is described by the 2007 West Point report as one of the most prolific and notorious Al Qaeda subsidiaries in the world.

These very same terrorist would then be documented flooding into Syria, primarily through Turkey with NATO complicity.

Image: Libyan Mahdi al-Harati of the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed
terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),
addressing fellow terrorists in Syria. Harati is now commanding a Libyan
brigade operating inside of Syria attempting to destroy the Syrian
government and subjugate the Syrian population. Traditionally, this is
known as "foreign invasion."

Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader
of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, "met with Free Syrian Army
leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey," said a military
official working with Mr Belhadj. "Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim
Libyan president) sent him there."

Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya's new authorities on Friday,
aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against
President Bashar al-Assad's regime, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials, the
Syrians requested "assistance" from the Libyan representatives and
were offered arms, and potentially volunteers.

"There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan
fighters to Syria," said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of
anonymity. "There is a military intervention on the way. Within a few
weeks you will see."

Image: (Left)West Point's Combating Terrorism Center's 2007 report, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq"
indicated which areas in Syria Al Qaeda fighters filtering into
Iraq came from. The overwhelming majority of them came from Dayr Al-Zawr
in Syria's southeast, Idlib in the north near the Turkish-Syrian
border, and Dar'a in the south near the Jordanian-Syrian border. (Right)
A map indicating the epicenters of violence in Syria indicate that the
exact same hotbeds for Al Qaeda in 2007, now serve as the epicenters of
so-called "pro-democracy fighters."

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In Syria, the southeastern region near Dayr Al-Zawr on the Iraqi-Syrian
border, the northwestern region of Idlib near the Turkish-Syrian border,
and Dar'a in the south near the Jordanian-Syrian border, produced the
majority of fighters found crossing over into Iraq, according to the
2007 West Point study.

US CIA is Propping up Al Qaeda in Syria

These are now astonishingly the very areas the US CIA is overseeing the flow of thousands of tons of weapons and aid - aid that is clearly falling almost entirely into the hands of Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.

With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply
increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent
months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the
uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic
data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of
rebel commanders.

The airlift, which began on a small scale in
early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into
a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has
grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian,
Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport
near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian
airports.

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has
been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Now, further evidence that the summation of US aid has fallen into the hands
of Al Qaeda in Syria, comes to us from the Washington Post's Liz
Sly who reported in her article, "U.S. feeds Syrians, but secretly," that:

In the heart of rebel-held territory in Syria’s northern province of
Aleppo, a small group of intrepid Westerners is undertaking a mission of
great stealth. Living anonymously in a small rural community, they
travel daily in unmarked cars, braving airstrikes, shelling and the
threat of kidnapping to deliver food and other aid to needy Syrians —
all of it paid for by the U.S. government.

Sly then claims that most Syrians credit Al Qaeda's al-Nusra with providing the aid:

“America has done nothing for us. Nothing at all,” said Mohammed Fouad
Waisi, 50, spitting out the words for emphasis in his small Aleppo
grocery store, which adjoins a bakery where he buys bread every day. The
bakery is fully supplied with flour paid for by the United States. But
Waisi credited Jabhat al-Nusra
— a rebel group the United States has designated a terrorist
organization because of its ties to al-Qaeda — with providing flour to
the region, though he admitted he wasn’t sure where it comes from.

And while Sly attempts to spin the story as merely misdirected anger and
ignorance on the part of Syrians receiving the aid, it is well
documented that bakeries in terrorist-held territory are in fact manned by Al
Qaeda militants. In fact, while Sly maintains that "security concerns"
are owed for America's opaque aid distribution operation, it appears more likely
the US is attempting to insidiously obfuscate its use of humanitarian
aid to help its militant proxies win "hearts and minds" amid a
humanitarian catastrophe the West itself engineered and perpetuated
intentionally.

Then, in the past weeks, Jabhat al-Nusra – which is outside the FSA – pushed
other rebel groups out of the stores and established a system to distribute
bread throughout rebel areas.

In a small office attached to a bakery in the Miesseh district of Aleppo, Abu
Yayha studied a map pinned on the wall. Numbers were scrawled in pencil
against streets.

“We counted the population of every street to assess the need for the area,”
explained Mr Yahya. “We provide 23,593 bags of bread every two days for this
area. This is just in one district. We are calculating the population in
other districts and doing the same there.

“In shops the cost is now 125 Syrian pounds (£1.12) for one pack. Here we sell
it at 50 Syrian pounds (45p) for two bags. We distribute some for free for
those who cannot pay.”

The bakery works constantly. Inside, barrows filled with dough were heaved
onto a conveyor belt that chopped it into round and flat segments, before
pushing the dough into a giant oven. Workers packed the steaming flatbread
in bags.

“I am from Jabhat al Nusra. All the managers of all the bakeries are,” said
Abu Fattah, the manager. “This makes sure that nobody steals.”

In essence, Al Qaeda is taking over neighborhoods upon a mountain of
US-provided flour, in bakeries overrun and held at the barrels of
US-provided guns. Just as was planned in 2007, the US is attempting to overthrow the government of Syria with "extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."

Humanitarian aid is being used as a political weapon
to carve out territory for the West's heavily armed proxies and extort
cooperation from the subjugated people who find themselves inside Al
Qaeda-occupied territory.

The troops, which will
number up to 200, are from the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division
at Fort Bliss, Texas, two Defense Department officials told CNN.

The deployment "creates an additional capability" beyond what has been
there, one official said, and will give the United States the ability to
"potentially form a joint task force for military operations, if
ordered."

Exactly where on the spectrum between actual operational intention and psychological warfare the deployment represents is still uncertain. What is certain, is that the US is deploying military assets with the intent of bolstering militant efforts inside Syria and along its peripheries. The astonishing irony is that many of the terrorists operating on both sides of the Jordanian-Syrian border US troops plan on "defending," may quite literally have been the same militants killing US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past 10 years.

US foreign policy has unraveled to such an extent that it risks unhinging entirely America's legitimacy and relevance abroad, as well as peace and prosperity at home.